Rhythm & Ribs

Sunrise Rotary

About St. Augustine Sunrise Rotary CubFormed in 1988 as an offshoot of the Noon Club with 35 charter members. Today we are 77 leaders within our professions and our community, who get together once a week for fellowship and an opportunity to give back to our community and the world.Rhythm & Ribs is an all volunteer effort of many more people than just our club members. Over 200 volunteers put in over 2,000 hours to run the festival for three days. Additionally, thousands of hours are spent planning the festival throughout each year.All the members of the St. Augustine Sunrise Rotary Club volunteer most of their weekend alongside their many friends and supporters of Rhythm & Ribs.

About Rotary International – “Service Above Self”Rhythm & Ribs is the St. Augustine Sunrise Rotary Club’s yearly fundraiser with all proceeds going to charity. Funds raised from the event typically reach around $100K! The Sunrise Rotary Club is able to achieve this fantastic figure with the help of almost 200 volunteers made up of Rotarians as well as others in the community, who work a total of 2,000 hours throughout the Festival weekend!Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto “Service Above Self”. Rotary’s Four-Way Test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?